It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
